Laura needs to be DBS checked to
be able to do DBS identity checks.City and Liv to confirm
final payments for the juniors hall hire so that we can settle
payment to City for last season.Mark to put the player status
pages on the CKA website and send out a report of statistics from
the referees' ratings of teams - done.Andy, Lions and Phoenix
to arrange date(s) for refereeing theory test(s) – interest
lapsed.Howard and clubs chairs to email EKA about articles -
done.Howard to email Dave Synott about International korfball,
regional squads and player pathways - done, see Chair's report
below.Howard to find out status of level 2 course - done, see
coaching and refereeing courses agenda item below.Clubs to ask
members about interest in level 1, 'level 1.5' and level 2
courses.

Laura

City, Liv

Clubs

REPORTS

ACTIONS?

CHAIRMAN:

Meeting is not quorate due to
insufficient attendees. Only 3 of the 6 clubs are represented.

International korfball, regional
squads and player pathways - only 1 response to email about
further dialogue with David Synott, EKA International
Sub-Committee (ISC) chair, so this has gone quiet.

Could Uni send their contacts
again, as I can't find them, to allow completion of the updated
CKA contact list.

Uni

TREASURER (Vacant):

Still need to fill this essential
role. Any volunteers or suggestions for who could be approached ?

Clubs

FIXTURES:

I am still waiting for a response
from Tigers regarding the rearranged game from the start of the
season (Tigers 2 v Tigers 1) and also for them to confirm they are
happy to play the matches that clash with the SERL (rearranged
games) and Promo league matches - I'm assuming they are as I've
had no response.

There are still a couple of games
that need to be re-arranged due to hall availability, but I think
most have been changed and are now showing the new dates/times on
the website.

Tigers

RESULTS:

Nothing to report.

SENIOR DEVELOPMENT (Vacant):

JUNIOR DEVELOPMENT:

REFEREEING:

Nothing to report.

COACHING (Vacant):

PUBLICITY (Vacant):

CPO:

Nothing to report.

1.
MATCH POSTPONEMENTS

There was a match
were that was postponed, but the referee turned up as neither the
referee, refereeing club or fixtures officer was informed, which
is contrary to the league rules. Note that rules say the referee
still gets paid their fee by the club responsible for the
cancellation or postponement. In this case the match was between
teams from the same club.

The meeting felt that
this was an exceptional case and that the match being between two
teams from the same club was probably a contributory cause.

2.
UNI REFEREEING COMMITMENTS FOR 2015/16

As agreed, the other CKA clubs are
covering Uni's refereeing commitments for 2014/15. This is an
exception and the expectation is that Uni will cover their own
commitments for 2015/16.

Uni will be sending people on the
new Introduction to Refereeing course in January. The meeting felt
that it's important that Uni show willing and make efforts.

3. COACHING AND REFEREEING COURSES

Adam organised an 'Introduction to
Refereeing' course. The course only cost £25, to cover some
additional hall time and printing handouts. Lions donating their
training hall time.

100% of attendees rated all
aspects of the course 4/5 or 5/5 (overall rating for course was
4.54/5)

100% of respondents would
recommend this course to others in their club

If you exclude the one attendee
who had recently qualified, 70% expressed a desire to go on to try
and qualify in the near future, and the other 30% “maybe in
the future” I was expecting 33% and 33% (with 33% saying
’no thanks’).

Proposed next steps:

- Organise a similar course in
January at Uni. I should have enough people already registered.
Based upon experience at Littleport, cap places at hard-limit of
12 (we had a soft-limit of 12 for the first, but stretched to
accommodate 15).

- If there is more demand for
more, or next year, we have a template that seems to work.

The first course hasn't yet been
funded. In the past courses have tended to be paid half by the CKA
and half by clubs (per attendee). The meeting felt that the clubs
could cover the cost of the course. As Lions 'donated' their
training hall time, the other clubs with attendees could cover the
cost of the Lions attendees.

Laura drafted a report on the
course for the EKA to put in their website news.

Further next steps:

- Work with Andy R and other
mentors to work out how we proceed with those that want to move
towards qualification. Might mean a follow-up ‘Developing
Referees” course (which could also target newly qualified
referees) or just some informal mentoring. Also need to think
about theory tests.

- We should also consider how we
can use development games (or even all CKA division 3 games) as
chance for trainees (when ready) to ref real games with a mentor.

At present, Andy's not aware of
anyone waiting to be assessed to become CKA approved. It's
expected this may change though following the Introduction to
Refereeing courses.

Will be launched early 2015.
Minimum 9 people, £200+ per head + hall hire. 5 days total
time commitment. So £1,800 + £900? hall hire.

The meeting felt that at present
there's not enough people from CKA clubs interested in a level 1
course to meet the minimum number of 14. It may be possible to
register the interest of less than this number with the EKA and
the remaining places be filled by people from outside the CKA,
Cambridge being a central location.

As
the meeting was not quorate, no expenditure could be approved.

4. CLUB HEALTH
INITIATIVE UPDATE

An
update on the club health initiative was presented on behalf of
Phll Morton.

5.
SENIOR INTER-AREA

Sunday
22nd February in Bristol, hosted by SWKA. Entry deadline is 19th
December. City have no interested players. Uni may have 1
interested player. Vikings have 3 boys and 1 girl interested. No
volunteers so far to be team manager.

6.
CKA TWITTER ACCOUNT

Mark proposes that we set up a
Twitter account for the purposes of publicity and results
notification. Coincidentally, the EKA have recently asked if we
have a Twitter account or Facebook page and offered support
creating, setting up, best practice advice etc. on social media.

Mark
will create a CKA Twitter account. It doesn't require active
management, so we can do see how it goes and evolve its use over
time.